I have some natural skepticism about the accuracy of the local histories when they report traditions dating from a century or two in the past--e.g., John A. Chapman's multiple conflicting accounts about Revolutionary actions in Newberry or Edgefield Co. The Portrait and Genealogical Records entry appears to refer to Amos Hall as the one who was born in Charleston, and who supplied provisions to the militia at the Battle of Cowpens (7 Oct 1780). A 14-year-old boy was not in a position to do that. If one interprets that passage as a reference to Amos's father James, it is possible to find a single Stub Indent entry for a Mr. James Hall who provided a small amount of corn to the Continental Line (different from the militia) in 1781 (not 1780). There is no identifying information re which of the multiple James Halls of SC supplied the provisions. Of the 4 James Halls with distinct service records in SC, one of them enlisted in the Newberry region, serving under Capt. James Lindsey and Capt. Jeremiah Williams. This was the Kings Creek/Gilders Creek northern end of later-Newberry, and distant from Bush River. A John Hall served under the same two Captains, which suggests (but does not prove) a relationship. That John Hall stated in his pension application that he was born Sep 1758 in Ireland. A great deal of research has been published about the family of William and Hannah Richardson Hall, some of it documented and some of it creative writing. Most online genealogies state that all of their children were born in Halltown, Jefferson Co WV--none of which existed at the time. The marriage was in Chester Co PA on 23 Apr 1731, at the St. Paul's (Episcopal) Church. William Hall's first Frederick Co VA grant in the Harper's Ferry location near later Halltown WV was dated 1751. His children were named in his 1764 will. The best-documented of the family histories states that son James sold his inherited land in 1765 to his brother Richard (not to Joseph, as I had mis-remembered earlier), then went to Newberry Co SC. He reportedly had a wife named Sarah when he left. This does not imply that this was any specific couple named James and Sarah Hall. The family history at http://sherlene4.wordpress.com says that "this James" died before 1 Apr 1791, as shown by (uncited) local court cases. The locality involved must be Frederick Co VA, since the Newberry Co SC court minutes include no reference to the death of a James Hall at/by that time. The main connecting-link is that two of the (other) children of William and Hannah Richardson Hall were very-documentably residents of Newberry Co SC in the latter 18th century. Elizabeth Hall married Isaiah Pemberton in Frederick Co. Isaiah petitioned for 200 acres of land in SC on 1 Dec 1772. He and his family were received by request at Bush River MM on 12.28.1774. Isaiah Pemberton died 7.13.1794, and Elizabeth [Hall] Pemberton died on 12.28.1795. The eldest Hall son-and-heir, William (b. ~1732), married Elizabeth Lucas in Frederick Co VA; she died before the 1777 will of her father Edward Lucas. William Hall II had another wife named Elizabeth as of 1797, when he was a resident of Newberry Co SC and gave his POA to son William Hall III to handle Frederick Co VA inheritances of his parents William and Hannah Hall, and of his brother Joseph Hall. William Hall II had no Newberry documents in common with your James Hall, or--for that matter--with the children of his deceased sister Elizabeth Hall Pemberton. Although your James Hall remained close to the Pemberton family in SC and OH. There is so much confusion in the reported ancestries and geographies of the various William-and-James Halls that it probably can't be sorted out without a lot of help from yDNA testing, in addition to precisely-referenced paper trails. Harriet Imrey On 1/24/2012 10:11 AM, Wendy Neuman McGuire wrote: > I have come across records and references to William Hall over the years and questioned whether James Hall (who married Sarah Duncan) was the son of William Hall and Hannah Richardson. A biography (with no evident sources) written in 1898 about Amos Hall states that the father of James Hall immigrated from England. > > "...James Hall, the great-great-grandfather of the gentleman of whom we write [Amos A. Hall] , was born only four miles from London. His son, whose Christian name was also James, had a son Amos, from whom our subject is descended. He was born in Charleston, S.C., and during the War of the Revolution, particularly in the battle of Cowpens, supplied the soldiers with provisions. The son of this man was Samuel Hall, our subject's father. He was also born in South Carolina, and when arriving at man's estate emigrated to Ohio, where he married Miss Fanny Alexander, whose birthplace was in Kentucky." (Portrait and Biographical Records of Jasper, Marshall > and Grundy Counties, Iowa -- Chicago: Biographical Pub. Co., 1894.) > > Wendy McGuire > > Message: 6 > Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:39:01 -0500 (EST) > From: Winack27@aol.com > Subject: Re: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] Duncan, Hall and Dickson > To: sc-bushriverquakers@rootsweb.com > Message-ID:<565d7.376e5ff0.3c4e3055@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > In a message dated 1/22/2012 4:10:42 P.M. Central Standard Time, > hhimrey@gmail.com writes: > > I sympathize with anybody trying to trace the very-common name Hall--that's my maiden name.